Developing new practices and skills to facilitate change
JISC Development programme
The JISC development programme directs funds at projects which are done more effectively at the national than the institutional level. The development programme is funded under strands or themes in order to focus on key areas of investigation.
Key concerns for the JISC’s development programme include the human and organisational issues which promote or inhibit the effective deployment of information and communications technology. The JISC funds a range of studies into the cultural impact of the move towards the increasing use of electronic resources and networked learning. These studies underpin a number of the other development strands of work.
1. Staff Development and Training
- Career Development Study: looking at the roles of institutional learning technologists
- Embedding Students and Staff ICT Skills: case studies and best practice guidelines
- Online Training Environment for an ICT element within courses for middle managers
2. Use of Electronic Information Services
- Monitoring and Evaluation Framework: to better understand and address the needs of scholars, teachers and learners, by monitoring and evaluating the behaviour of users in information seeking and use of information technology and information services
- Purchasing Decisions of Electronic Information Services: models for best practice
3. Networked Learning
- Communication Skills
- Real Costs of Networked Learning
- Networked Learning In HE: Guidelines and Student Experiences
4. Institutional Policy Development
- Human Issues concerning Network Security
- Predictors of Network Usage
- Approaches to Intellectual Property Rights
The separate programmes
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